Dillinger (1945 film)

Dillinger
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Max Nosseck
Produced by	Frank and Maurice King
Written by	William Castle (uncredited) Philip Yordan
Starring	Lawrence Tierney Edmund Lowe Anne Jeffreys Elisha Cook Jr. Eduardo Ciannelli
Music by	Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography	Jackson Rose
Studio	Monogram Pictures
Release date(s)	March 2, 1945 (1945-03-02)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$65,000
Box office	$4,000,000 (USA)

Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger.

The film was directed by Max Nosseck. Dillinger was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney. The B-movie was shot in black and white and features a smoke-bomb bank robbery edited into the film from the 1937 Fritz Lang film, You Only Live Once. The film was released on DVD by Warner Bros. for the Film Noir Classic Collections 2 in 2005 even though the film is generally regarded as not being film noir. Some sequences were shot at Big Bear Lake, California.

Awards

Philip Yordan was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, earning Monogram Pictures its only nomination.

Cast

• Lawrence Tierney as John Dillinger
• Edmund Lowe as Specs Green
• Anne Jeffreys as Helen Rogers
• Eduardo Ciannelli as Marco Minelli (as Eduardo Cianelli)
• Marc Lawrence as Doc Madison
• Elisha Cook, Jr. as Kirk Otto
• Ralph Lewis as Tony
• Elsa Janssen as Mrs. Otto
• Ludwig Stössel as Mr. Otto
• Constance Worth as Blonde

See also

• List of American films of 1945

External links

• Dillinger at the Internet Movie Database
• Dillinger at AllRovi
• Dillinger at Rotten Tomatoes